https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net
Update: it’s now US$1921.00
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Can someone explain selective blindness of where to place the dollar sign ($) when correct examples stare people right in the face?
Convention is different everywhere, $ value and value $ are both seen in Canada for example, former being more common in English, latter in French
Like . vs , for decimal notation, people are going to use what they're familiar with.
Canadian conventions vary by language. In English, I've only ever seen $ then figure.
The ISO currency code can go after (eg, 1 USD, 1 CAD).
It's a national convention: Wikipedia claims that in all English-speaking countries (and most of Latin America), the symbol precedes the amount.
If they're a non-native English writer, I guess that would explain it. An awful lot of people in the US seem to do this, too. 🤷
At least it reflects the way the number is said. Or would you say "it would cost them dollars 1921"?
Are you new to natural languages? They're highly irregular. Appealing to speech to argue that writing should correspond is senseless, because look at the rest of the language! Look at the unpronounced letters, inconsistent spellings, irregular punctuation that exists only in writing: English writing isn't English speech, doesn't model it accurately, never has. They're clearly distinct systems following different rules that only loosely relate such that writing doesn't directly correspond to speech. Complex irregularities are common across natural languages, so it's weird to pick 1 small irregularity across a whole ocean of them and claim oh yeah, this part needs to be consistent.
If breaking established conventions for written English is a ploy to draw attention, then mission accomplished I guess?
The way the number is said? You mean
"dollars nineteen twenty one" or
"dollars one thousand nine hundred twenty one" or
"dollars one nine two one?"
"this thing costs two dollars"
vs
"this thing costs dollars two"
Am I supposed to say those quotation marks out loud or am I just supposed to know how they work when written down?
«this thing costs two dollars»
vs
«this thing costs dollars two»
Correction: it's now 2.010,00 US$.
I've heard that writing the dollar sign before the number is a holdover from when we used pen and paper, and that it made it harder for a malicious actor to change the value of a cheque or something.
Going forward, it makes more sense to write the dollar sign after the number, as is done with every other unit (50 km, 25 mg, etc.).